Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions....
Moving user profile to a new instance #1985: Provide the ability for users to migrate their account and all associated data (posts, comments, moderation actions, saved posts, etc.) from one Lemmy instance to another. This would allow users to move freely between instances without losing their online identity, history, and credibility built up over time on a previous instance.
It’s crazy when I see this super popular issues closed without completion by the main devs. It makes me feel like they don’t care at all about user feedback.
The woman is Dorothy Wainer. The old man is Edward Wainer. I don't know who the young man on the left is. The location is Ottawa and it's December 1985.
If you recognize the man in the blue jacket, please let me know.
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GENESIS Legend PHIL COLLINS Had Six Huge Hits In '85... But His Live Gig With Rock's Biggest Band Was A Disaster; PROFESSOR OF ROCK Reports (Video)
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Venom: Live From The Hammersmith Odeon Theatre
Arguably one of the most important bands in extreme music and extreme metal history, VENOM needs little introduction. After the ensemble's already infamous performance released as "The 7th Date of Hell - Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1984", the pioneering beast that is VENOM returned to the venue in 198...
In spite of its ominous literary associations, 1984 proved to be a rather quiet year for SF. There were no major scandals like 1983’s infamous Great Timescape Fiasco, no SF lines driven into oblivion by corporate greed and shortsightedness, no major editorial shakeups … but if you looked closely enough, in the right places,...
CW: Zombie non-fiction? Sorta? That voodoo that Haitians do. Secret police committing torture and genital mutilation. Pullman on DMT. Decapitation. Baddest bokor on film. Extreme piercing. Off the rails third act as per Craven's signatory directorial style....
This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.
Brazil is a 1985 sci-fi dystopian dark comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm....
MacGyver besitzt einen unglaublichen Einfallsreichtum, wenn es darum geht, mit Hilfe seiner handwerklichen Begabung und Alltagsgegenständen immer wieder Dinge zu basteln, mit denen er sich aus schwierigen Situationen befreit. So entschärft er z. B. eine Bombe mittels einer Büroklammer. Aufgrund eines schicksalhaften Ereignisses in seiner Vergangenheit weigert er sich, im Kampf gegen die Gegner eine Waffe zu tragen, und versucht, Gewalt möglichst zu vermeiden. Stattdessen löst MacGyver seine Probleme mit gesundem Menschenverstand und viel Wissen um Physik, Chemie und Elektrotechnik.
Chaos never died. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert & spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being still radiates serene as the black pennants of Assassins, random & perpetually intoxicated....
On a serious note, if you’re adept at coding or database design, please have a look at the GitHub issues regarding account and community migration (#1985 and #3075 if I remember correctly) as those things may be desperately needed.
The devs also explicitly mentioned this request in their statement:
we are seeing lots of requests to implement major new features, such as migration between instances, or combining similar communities. As described above, we are completely overloaded with work, and definitely won’t have time to implement these in the near future. If there is a feature you want to see implemented, you will likely need to work on it yourself, or find someone who can.
For now, you can create another account on another instance and use that instead (or both), or just peek how the experience might be.
Aber da es recht beliebt ist und schon viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommen hat, gehe ich einfach mal optimistisch davon aus, dass sich schon Entwickler für die Umsetzung finden werden.
Aktuell kannst du einfach mehrere Accounts auf verschiedenen Instanzen haben. Neulich las ich, dass jemand 12 Accounts hat (was auch den Zuwachs an neuen Lemmingen etwas fragwürdiger erscheinen lässt). Ich sehe das aber auch wie du und warte auf eine ordentliche Funktion, oder schau bei freier Kapazität, wie ich mithelfen kann.
Lemmy is software anyone can develop and everyone controls, libre software, which makes it very hard for Lemmy to abuse us. To keep it this way, share the ideas of software freedom....
Let’s say one instance would get massive, and would stop federating and start charging for API access. If that happened, we would be in the same situation as now with Reddit. Yea, it would e a lot easier to set up your own instance, but you would still need to convince all these people to give up that main instance.
I argue it wouldn't be the same, but much better for the users.
You can already make an account on another instance. Ditch the old, use the new. Problem solved. The big advantage is, you don't need to look for a new platform, accustom yourself with the new environment, and so on. Switching between instances is much easier than switching between platforms.
Yes, you might lose access to some communities, but that would happen anyways if you switch platform. And community redundancies exist (the good side of 'fragmentation').
Hopefully, we will get GitHub feature request #1985 fulfilled: Moving user profile to a new instance, which would further ease transitioning between instances. (Don't get too excited, doesn't seem it's being worked on. Consider contributing if you can.)
This would make it harder to excert power in awful instances, people can easily vote with their feet.
Compare it to e-mail. If you want to switch provider you have to backup and restore your emails if you want to.
When moving to another mail provider, I can forward mails going to the old address to the new one.
When moving to another lemmy account (technically creating an unconnected second one), I have no way to be notified of replies to posts or comments I made with the old account.
There are a couple other use cases where the comparison doesn't really hold. My hopes are on Moving user profile to a new instance #1985, but it probably won't be implemented any time soon.
It seems bizarre in a land of federated instances to not have the identity provider decoupled (or even truly decentralized). Instance goes away? Poof, there goes your identity. “Backed up” your data and want to import it into another instance? That functionality doesn’t exist today.
Just linking a suggestion someone made in the same spirit:
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Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions....
Real Genius - 1985 - Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret (movie-web.app)
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"...
Ladyhawke - 1985 - Starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer (movie-web.app)
Sir, the truth is, I talk to God all the time, and, no offense, but He never mentioned you....
Year's Best Science Fiction - Second Annual Collection - 1985 - Featuring the work of William Gibson, Octavia Butler, Robert Silverberg, Fredrick Pohl and Tanith Lee (pdfhost.io)
In spite of its ominous literary associations, 1984 proved to be a rather quiet year for SF. There were no major scandals like 1983’s infamous Great Timescape Fiasco, no SF lines driven into oblivion by corporate greed and shortsightedness, no major editorial shakeups … but if you looked closely enough, in the right places,...
The Serpent and the Rainbow - 1988 - directed by Wes Craven and starring Bill Pullman (movie-web.app)
CW: Zombie non-fiction? Sorta? That voodoo that Haitians do. Secret police committing torture and genital mutilation. Pullman on DMT. Decapitation. Baddest bokor on film. Extreme piercing. Off the rails third act as per Craven's signatory directorial style....
Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.
Brazil - 1985 - starring Jonathan Pryce, and featuring Robert De Niro. Directed by Terry Gilliam, written with Charles McKeown and Tom Stoppard (movie-web.app)
Brazil is a 1985 sci-fi dystopian dark comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm....
Singapore - Tom Waits - Rain Dogs - 1985 (www.youtube.com)
We sail tonight for Singapore...
T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism - Hakim Bey (theanarchistlibrary.org)
Chaos never died. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert & spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being still radiates serene as the black pennants of Assassins, random & perpetually intoxicated....
Lemmy v0.18.3 Release (join-lemmy.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2540874...
The .mlpocalypse commeth! (lemmy.tf)
On a serious note, if you’re adept at coding or database design, please have a look at the GitHub issues regarding account and community migration (#1985 and #3075 if I remember correctly) as those things may be desperately needed.
Are there benefits to hosting your own personal lemmy?
Slowly exploring the lemmy ecosystem, since I don't want to use reddit, and was wondering if selfhosting would be a good idea?
Ob Feddit bei großem Erfolg dann auch scheiße wird? (feddit.de) German
Lemmy is libre software. Don't want to get abused? Keep Lemmy libre.
Lemmy is software anyone can develop and everyone controls, libre software, which makes it very hard for Lemmy to abuse us. To keep it this way, share the ideas of software freedom....
Lemmy needs two things to be successful
In my opinion, there are two big things holding Lemmy back right now:...
What is the thing that has surprised you the most about the Fediverse? (lemmy.world)
To me, it was the astounding amount of interactivity between the community....